[NTG-context] Visually balanced columns

[NTG-context] Visually balanced columns

[Alexey Kryukov]

Hi list,

I'd like to know if its is possible to get visually balanced
mixedcolumns in lmtx. For example, if I have \blank's between
paragraphs, I would like them to be stretched or expanded by
a such way that the bottommost lines have the same vertical
position -- no matter, how many lines there are in each column and how
exactly they are aligned.

If I understand correctly, that's how the multicols environment in
LaTeX works, and that's how old-multicolumns worked -- but this module
seems to be no longer supported in lmtx.

I tried to disable gridfitting for startcolumns, but it produces a
completely distorted output.

-- 
Regards,
Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>

Moscow State University
Faculty of History
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[NTG-context] Re: Visually balanced columns

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Alexey Kryukov schrieb am 27.03.2024 um 14:02:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'd like to know if its is possible to get visually balanced
> mixedcolumns in lmtx. For example, if I have \blank's between
> paragraphs, I would like them to be stretched or expanded by
> a such way that the bottommost lines have the same vertical
> position -- no matter, how many lines there are in each column and how
> exactly they are aligned.
> 
> If I understand correctly, that's how the multicols environment in
> LaTeX works, and that's how old-multicolumns worked -- but this module
> seems to be no longer supported in lmtx.
> 
> I tried to disable gridfitting for startcolumns, but it produces a
> completely distorted output.

The pagecolumns environment supports bottom aligned content.

\setupwhitespace[medium]

\setupalign[depth]

\starttext

\startpagecolumns
\dorecurse{20}{\samplefile{jojomayer}\par}
\stoppagecolumns

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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